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Compare And Contrast Communism And Fascism

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Communism and fascism are two different ideologies of government, and are often seen as two sides of the same coin, if not the same ideology. One could respectively think of them as philosophically-oriented and action-oriented. Both are in favor of the collective, rather than the individual. Both are one party systems, with a strong governmental backing. Both heavily use violence and propaganda to control, to indoctrinate, it's people. Yet both are vilified by democracies around the world, of which Germany was, after World War I. Germany was also, however, in a rapidly declining state, due to the restrictions imposed upon them after the war. As such, the people looked to new ways of gaining their former grandeur, and so they looked to these two ideologies to do it. Communism was a philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the early 1840s. They believed the proletariat class would being a revolution in which they would take power from the bourgeoisie, and then establish a nation of equals, in which one works not for themselves, but for their country. It is a classless society in …show more content…

It is a militaristic and nationalistic governmental body, used to empower the dismal state of a nation. Similar to communism, and why some may believe them to be the same ideology, the individual is not as important as the nation itself. Religion is allowed under fascism, but it generally a religion intrinsically tied to the nation. It would appeal to a nation under duress, with a desire to be strong once again. Germany and France both had a few differences in their implementation of fascism; France did not believe in a superior race of people, as opposed to Germany's view of Aryans, and France believed strict class structure was necessary to promote order, wherein class structure was blurred if not eliminated in

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